[Magdalen] Oh my!

[Jay Weigel]

When I was in high school, WASP girls simply did not have pierced ears. It
was Not Done. It was an ethnic thing, or perhaps a few so-called "cheap
girls" did it. Therefore I did not get my ears pierced until I was 21 and
at UW-Madison. I got my second piercing after I had my hysterectomy in
1995, more or less to celebrate getting through it. I've considered getting
a third from time to time but haven't done it.

I'm rather bemused by the number of young women now sporting nose studs or
even rings....not just South Asian women any more, either. Definitely not
something I plan on doing!

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 7/4/2016 12:51:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> magdalen at herberthouse.org writes:
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> eventually get both my ears   pierced>>>>>
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> I forgot to mention that I have had as many as three piercings of
> my right ear lobe (currently just one filled) for about 35 years.
> As I think I have mentioned before on list, my maternal grandmother
> had a collection of "solje," or silver ethnic earrings from her  province
> in Norway.  Since my ex-wife and therefore our daughter thought
> the ear-piercing was mutilation (I kept telling her that circumcision
> is mutilation, but my son was circumcised anyway) and therefore
> did not wear the earrings, I decided to have my ear pierced so that
> SOMEONE in the family could wear the collection of solje (silver).
>
> So there.
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> David Strang.
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